Echoes

The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat.

Optimism is true moral courage.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

The sun is new each day.

Through endurance we conquer.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

Never despair.

We have surmounted all the perils and endured all the agonies of the past. We shall provide against and thus prevail over the dangers and problems of the future, withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well. We have, I believe, within us the life-strength and guiding light by which the tormented world around us may find the harbour of safety, after a storm-beaten voyage.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

A man must shape himself to a new mark when the old one goes to ground.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

I will either find a way or make one.

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.

We will either find a way through these mountains, or we will make a way through them. No barrier of nature shall stop us.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

He who endures, conquers.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

I will either find a way, or make one.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.